He requests of posterity

Staplegordon Burial ground, is near Langholm in the Scottish Borders. One of the tombstones in this burial ground has this interesting inscription:


1859 Ordnance Survey map:


The 1859 Ordnance Survey map describes a mausoleum to the Maxwell family of Broomholm in the centre of the burial ground:


Index card relating to Staplegordon Old Parish Church [Trove]:


The ‘very neat mausoleum’ of the Broomholm family was demolished. No image of it has survived.

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